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Who the hell is Jon Skeet?
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thenduksApr 21 '09 at 20:37

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@thenduks: Leave now before he comes and sees your ignorance.
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DexterApr 22 '09 at 23:28

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Could someone explain to those poor lost souls how much they are mistaken? They refer to "Chuck Norris" for "programming" facts, instead of Jon! See "The Ultimate Top 25 Chuck Norris “The Programmer” Jokes": codesqueeze.com/… (and the last comments on that page)
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VonCJun 20 '09 at 10:08

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@VonC: I saw your comment in that forum. Thanks for trying to set those heathens straight. :)
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Bill the LizardJun 26 '09 at 2:44

The Wall Street crisis was caused by a downvote to a Jon Skeet answer.

When Jon Skeet reaches Captain Hewgill, the world will end.

Only Jon Skeet knows that this sentence is true.

Jon Skeet is the author of The Book of Answers, programmer's edition. In a moment of frustration, yesterday I opened it at a random page. It said: "You are trying to dereference a null pointer at line 525". Damn it, it was true!

"Jon Skeet" is the Internet come alive. It's a cover name for all the world's computers forming themselves into a massive grid & amusing themselves on StackOverflow. His name is an anagram of "Net's Joke" - how obvious could it be?

Jon Skeet once wrote a switch-statement back in the 80s. He hasn't written one since because it's still serving all his switching needs, and yours too, had you only access to it.

When Jon Skeet stands up from his chair and walks over to the printer, his pyjamas creates enough static electricity to power a city. Too bad he never needs any print-outs.

Jon Skeet can easily and leisurely read 400 words per minute, write 40 lines of code per minute, play chess in his head, build a server from three C64s, juggle 7 oranges and repeatadly refresh his browser window, all at the same time, in perfect time slices of 10ms per task. (And yes, the oranges freeze in mid-air when Jon Skeet switches context, although it happends so fast, it looks perfectly smooth.)

Jon Skeet has 2 keyboards so that he can type at full speed on one while the other is cooling down.

Jon Skeet's desktop background is a picture of his desktop background. You wouldn't understand it even if you saw it.

Do you know why there's a shadow under your mouse cursor? Jon Skeet has hidden a small camera under it, so that he can see what you're clicking on.